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Vanwesenbeeck, Ine, Marianne Cense, Miranda van Reeuwijk, and Judith Westeneng. "Understanding Sexual Agency. Implications for Sexual Health Programming." Sexes 2, no. 4 (September 23, 2021): 378–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sexes2040030.

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Debates on human agency, especially female and sexual agency, have permeated the social scientific literature and health educational practice for multiple decades now. This article provides a review of recent agency debates illustrating how criticisms of traditional conceptions of (sexual) agency have led to a notable diversification of the concept. A comprehensive, inclusive description of sexual agency is proposed, focusing on the navigation of goals and desires in the wider structural context, and acknowledging the many forms sexual agency may take. We argue there is no simple relation between sexual agency and sexual health. Next, we describe the implications of such an understanding of sexual agency for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and for sexual health and rights (SHR) programming more generally. We put forward validation of agentic variety, gender transformative approaches, meaningful youth participation, and multicomponent strategies as essential in building young peoples’ sexual agency and their role as agents of wider societal change. We also show that these essential conditions, wherever they have been studied, are far from being realized. With this review and connected recommendations, we hope to set the stage for ongoing, well-focused research and development in the area.

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Reed, Sarah J., Robin Lin Miller, and Tina Timm. "Identity and Agency." Psychology of Women Quarterly 35, no. 4 (September 26, 2011): 571–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684311417401.

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Young sexual minority women disproportionately experience pregnancy, repeat pregnancy, and become parents, when compared with their heterosexual peers. Black sexual minority women who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are a part of three demographic groups likely to experience adolescent pregnancy. A paucity of research has examined why these young women become pregnant. The authors begin to address this gap by examining the meaning of pregnancy from young women’s perspective. Modified grounded theory was used to analyze data from interviews with 14 young Black sexual minority women, aged 16–24. Pregnancies, intentional and unintentional, were common among the participants and within their sexual minority community. Pregnancy affirmed sexual identity and same-sex relationships as well as garnered sexual and reproductive agency. Participants’ pregnancy experiences contradicted the belief that young women sought or valued pregnancy because it provided access to heterosexual privilege. Although the main functions of intentional pregnancies did not differ drastically from those of young heterosexual women, we argue that these young women’s pregnancy and parenting desires may be magnified because of the particular realities they face as sexual minority women. Further, we situate our analysis within the context of a Black cultural environment and argue that pregnancy and motherhood may be adaptive subsistence strategies for women who are largely socially devalued.

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Seabrook, Rita C., L. Monique Ward, Lilia M. Cortina, Soraya Giaccardi, and Julia R. Lippman. "Girl Power or Powerless Girl? Television, Sexual Scripts, and Sexual Agency in Sexually Active Young Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 41, no. 2 (April 12, 2017): 240–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684316677028.

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Both traditional gender roles and traditional heterosexual scripts outline sexual roles for women that center on sexual passivity, prioritizing others’ needs, and self-silencing. Acceptance of these roles is associated with diminished sexual agency. Because mainstream media are a prominent source of traditional gender portrayals, we hypothesized that media use would be associated with diminished sexual agency for women, as a consequence of the traditional sexual roles conveyed. We modeled the relations among television (TV) use, acceptance of gendered sexual scripts, and sexual agency (sexual assertiveness, condom use self-efficacy, and sexual shame) in 415 sexually active undergraduate women. As expected, both TV exposure and perceived realism of TV content were associated with greater endorsement of gendered sexual scripts, which in turn were associated with lower sexual agency. Endorsement of gendered sexual scripts fully mediated the relation between TV use and sexual agency. Results suggest that endorsement of traditional gender roles and sexual scripts may be an important predictor of college women’s sexual agency. Interventions targeting women’s sexual health should focus on encouraging media literacy and dismantling gender stereotypic heterosexual scripts. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index .

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Moore, Lisa. "Sexual agency in Manet's Olympia." Textual Practice 3, no. 2 (June 1989): 222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502368908582060.

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Levin, Dana S., L. Monique Ward, and Elizabeth C. Neilson. "Formative Sexual Communications, Sexual Agency and Coercion, and Youth Sexual Health." Social Service Review 86, no. 3 (September 2012): 487–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/667785.

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Bradley, Lilanta. "An Exploration of Sexual Agency in the Aging Population." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2034.

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Abstract There are some unique social and environmental challenges to geriatric sexual well-being. This presentation explores sexual agency in the aging population with a special emphasis on barriers and facilitators of sexual agency in long-term care settings. We will situate late-life sexuality literature with Cense’s (2019) theory of sexual agency. Her four components of moral agency, embodied agency, narrative agency, and bonded agency will be used to examine the older person’s perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors associated with sexual autonomy from a macro and micro lens. This framework uses assertions that agency is built on self-concepts from the individual and relational level; reflects power dynamics and social inequalities; and requires strategic negotiation of social norms, policies, and relationships to shape one’s autonomy and sexual self perceptions. We will also discuss gaps in the literature regarding gender, race/ethnicity, and geographical differences that can impact an older person’s sexual agency and overall sexual well-being.

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Burkett, Melissa, and Karine Hamilton. "Postfeminist sexual agency: Young women’s negotiations of sexual consent." Sexualities 15, no. 7 (October 2012): 815–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460712454076.

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Chmielewski, Jennifer F., Christin P. Bowman, and Deborah L. Tolman. "Pathways to Pleasure and Protection: Exploring Embodiment, Desire, and Entitlement to Pleasure as Predictors of Black and White Young Women’s Sexual Agency." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 3 (May 20, 2020): 307–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320917395.

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Sexual agency is a fundamental dimension of sexual subjectivity and well-being. Research and theory suggest that it functions in the service of both protection from harm and enabling sexual pleasure. However, sexual agency can be difficult for women to navigate in a social landscape in which femininity ideologies remain powerful social forces, operating in racialized ways. We examined how embodiment, sexual desire, and entitlement to sexual pleasure were associated with sexual agency in the service of protection (i.e., condom use and refusing unwanted sex) and pleasure (i.e., asking for what one wants from a sexual partner) for Black and White heterosexual college women using path analysis and path invariance testing. We found that across race, women’s embodiment was associated with greater comfort with their sexual desire, which in turn was associated with greater entitlement to sexual pleasure and sexual agency in service of both pleasure and protection. While Black and White women evidenced similar levels of both forms of agency, Black participants’ agency in the service of protection was unrelated to their entitlement to sexual pleasure. We discuss these findings in light of racialized discourses of women’s sexuality and the importance of understanding sexual desire as anchored in the body and enabling young women’s sexual agency.

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Concepcion, Consuelo M. "On Pornography, Representation and Sexual Agency." Hypatia 14, no. 1 (1999): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hyp.2005.0057.

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Rotter, Nancy S., Stephen J. Dollinger, and Jean A. Cunningham. "Agency-Communion in Affective Sexual Memories." Psychological Reports 68, no. 1 (February 1991): 61–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1991.68.1.61.

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Riyani, Irma, and Lyn Parker. "Women exercising sexual agency in Indonesia." Women's Studies International Forum 69 (July 2018): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.05.002.

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Concepcion, Consuelo M. "On Pornography, Representation and Sexual Agency." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 14, no. 1 (January 1999): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/hyp.1999.14.1.97.

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Concepcion, Consuelo M. "On Pornography, Representation and Sexual Agency." Hypatia 14, no. 1 (1999): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1999.tb01041.x.

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I argue that Alisa Carse's call for antipornography legislation sets a potentially dangerous legal move that could threaten to shut off the dialogue women need to redefine the meanings and terms of our sexualities. I also argue that the terms of legitimacy need to be re-examined outside a legal system that systematically fails to protect the rights of sexual minorities.

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Pande, Rohini Prabha, Tina Y. Falle, Sujit Rathod, Jeffrey Edmeades, and Suneeta Krishnan. "‘If your husband calls, you have to go’: understanding sexual agency among young married women in urban South India." Sexual Health 8, no. 1 (2011): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh10025.

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Background: Early marriage is common in many developing countries, including India. Women who marry early have little power within their marriage, particularly in the sexual domain. Research is limited on women’s ability to control their marital sexual experiences. Methods: We identified factors affecting sexual communication among married women aged 16–25, in Bangalore, India, and how factors associated with sexual communication differed from those influencing non-sexual agency. We ran ordered logit regression models for one outcome of sexual agency (sexual communication, n = 735) and two outcomes of non-sexual agency (fertility control, n = 735, and financial decision-making, n = 728). Results: Sexual communication was more restricted (83 women (11.3%) with high sexual communication) than financial decision-making (183 women (25.1%) with high financial decision-making agency) and fertility control (238 women (32.4%) with high fertility control). Feeling prepared before the first sexual experience was significantly associated with sexual communication (odds ratio (OR) = 1.8; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.13–2.89). Longer marriage duration (OR 2.13; 95% CI = 1.42–3.20) and having worked pre-marriage (OR 1.38; 95% CI = 1.02–1.86) were also significant. Few other measures of women’s resources increased their odds of sexual communication. Education, having children, pre-marital vocational training and marital intimacy were significant for non-sexual outcomes but not sexual communication. Conclusions: Policy-makers seeking to enhance young married women’s sexual communication need to consider providing sex education to young women before they marry. More broadly, interventions designed to increase women’s agency need to be tailored to the type of agency being examined.

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Bumet, Jennie E. "Situating Sexual Violence in Rwanda (1990–2001): Sexual Agency, Sexual Consent, and the Political Economy of War." African Studies Review 55, no. 2 (September 2012): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arw.2012.0034.

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Abstract:This article situates the sexual violence associated with the Rwandan civil war and 1994 genocide within a local cultural history and political economy in which institutionalized gender violence shaped the choices of Rwandan women and girls. Based on ethnographic research, it argues that Western notions of sexual consent are not applicable to a culture in which colonialism, government policy, war, and scarcity of resources have limited women's access to land ownership, economic security, and other means of survival. It examines emic cultural models of sexual consent and female sexual agency and proposes that sexual slavery, forced marriage, prostitution, transactional sex, nonmarital sex, informal marriage or cohabitation, and customary (bridewealth) marriages exist on a continuum on which female sexual agency becomes more and more constrained by material circumstance. Even when women's choices are limited, women still exercise their agency to survive. Conflating all forms of sex in conflict zones under the rubric of harm undermines women's and children's rights because it reinforces gendered hierarchies and diverts attention from the structural conditions of poverty in postconflict societies.

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Wood, Jill M., Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, and Patricia Barthalow Koch. "Negotiating Sexual Agency: Postmenopausal Women's Meaning and Experience of Sexual Desire." Qualitative Health Research 17, no. 2 (February 2007): 189–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732306297415.

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White, Simone, and Maggie Nelson. "Sexual Agency and the Meaning of Care." Yale Review 109, no. 3 (2021): 94–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tyr.2021.0066.

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Corsianos, Marilyn. "Mainstream Pornography and “Women”: Questioning Sexual Agency." Critical Sociology 33, no. 5-6 (September 2007): 863–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916307x230359.

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Indra, Citra Asmara, Emy Susanti, and Musta'in Mashud. "Sexual agency of young widows in Malay culture: An ethnographic study in Serdang Village, South Bangka." Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik 34, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 459. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mkp.v34i42021.459-469.

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Patriarchal culture is part of Malay society. However widows in Serdang Village, South Bangka gain agency in the midst of patriarchal culture. They find strategies in meeting their sexual needs after getting their agency. This study looks at how women find their agency and strategies to fulfill their sexual needs in the midst of the Serdang Village community which is still heavily associated with its Malay culture. The ethnographic research method was carried out to explore the agency of young widows in the village using Agency Theory from Lois McNay and Gayle Rubin’s thought “The Charmed Cyrcle” as an analytical knife to dissect the problems that exist in Serdang Village. This study found that young widows use strategies to fulfill their sexual needs, either by connecting with a boyfriend without getting married, watching adult videos, connecting with customers on a consensual or paid basis. This study concludes that the agency that has been built by the widows allows them to express their sexual needs freely.

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Linde, Robyn. "The Rights of Queer Children." International Journal of Children’s Rights 27, no. 4 (November 21, 2019): 719–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02704006.

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The ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) has long been hailed as a major event in the realisation of children’s human rights, combining the need for protection with a desire to grant agency through recognition of the evolving capacities of the child. Yet the idea of children’s agency as articulated in the crc excluded sexual identity and expression, and ushered in an incomplete emancipation for lgbtiq children; children who are gender non-conforming; and children whose sexual expression otherwise conflicts with heterosexuality – hereafter queer children. I argue that while the crc granted children agency in terms of rights to expression, thought and conscience, it denied children sexual agency. Queer children’s political agency is intimately connected to sexual identity and agency, because unlike their heterosexual counterparts, queer children’s identity and expression is sexualised while, at the same time, they are excluded from adult, identity-based movements.

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Bay-Cheng, Laina Y. "Agency Is Everywhere, but Agency Is Not Enough: A Conceptual Analysis of Young Women’s Sexual Agency." Journal of Sex Research 56, no. 4-5 (February 27, 2019): 462–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2019.1578330.

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Linzer, Norman. "The Role of Values in Determining Agency Policy." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 73, no. 9 (November 1992): 553–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438949207300905.

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The author highlights the role of values in determining agency policy by analyzing an agency's policy on sexual behavior of persons with cognitive disabilities in group homes. The value orientations of the social work staff, parents, Jewish community, and state government are compared. The conflicting values placed the agency in a quandary from which it extricated itself by resorting to a policy compromise.

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Ward, L. Monique, Rita C. Seabrook, Petal Grower, Soraya Giaccardi, and Julia R. Lippman. "Sexual Object or Sexual Subject? Media Use, Self-Sexualization, and Sexual Agency Among Undergraduate Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 42, no. 1 (December 13, 2017): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684317737940.

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Lim, Megan S. C., Spring Cooper, Larissa Lewis, Kath Albury, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Deborah Bateson, Melissa Kang, and S. Rachel Skinner. "Prospective mixed methods study of online and offline social networks and the development of sexual agency in adolescence: the Social Networks and Agency Project (SNAP) protocol." BMJ Open 9, no. 5 (May 17, 2019): e024329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024329.

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IntroductionSocial media may play a role in adolescent sexual development. The limited research on social media use and sexual development has found both positive and negative influences. The focus of this study is on sexual agency: a positive sexual outcome. This paper describes the protocol for the Social Networks and Agency Project (SNAP) study which aims to examine the relationship between online and offline social networks and the development of healthy relationships and sexual agency in adolescence.Methods and analysisThe SNAP study is a mixed methods interdisciplinary longitudinal study. Over an 18-month period, adolescents aged 15–17 years at recruitment complete three questionnaires (including demographics, sexual behaviour, sexual agency and social networks); three in-depth interviews; and fortnightly online diaries describing their sexual behaviour and snapshots of their social networks that week. Longitudinal analyses will be used to describe changes in sexual behaviour and experiences over time, sexual agency, social media use, and social network patterns. Social network analysis will be used to capture relational data from which we will be able to construct sociograms from the respondent’s perspective. Interview data will be analysed both in relation to emergent themes (deploying a grounded theory approach), and from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This mixed method analysis will allow for comparisons across quantitative and qualitative data, for consistency and differences, and will enhance the robustness of data interpretation and conclusions drawn, as multiple data sources are triangulated.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was granted by the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee and the Family Planning New South Wales Ethics Committee. The study will provide comprehensive, prospective information on the social and sexual development of adolescents in the age of social media and findings will be disseminated through conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications.

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O'Leary, Ann, and Richard J. Wolitski. "Moral agency and the sexual transmission of HIV." Psychological Bulletin 135, no. 3 (2009): 478–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015615.

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Reavey, Paula. "Spatial markings: Memory, agency and child sexual abuse." Memory Studies 3, no. 4 (August 2, 2010): 314–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698010370035.

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Waterhouse, Lorraine, and James Carnie. "Investigating Child Sexual Abuse — Towards Inter-Agency Cooperation." Adoption & Fostering 14, no. 4 (December 1990): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857599001400403.

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Bell, Stephen A. "Young people and sexual agency in rural Uganda." Culture, Health & Sexuality 14, no. 3 (March 2012): 283–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2011.635808.

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Jovanovic, Jasna, and Jean Calterone Williams. "Gender, Sexual Agency, and Friends with Benefits Relationships." Sexuality & Culture 22, no. 2 (December 6, 2017): 555–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-017-9483-1.

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Daniels, Julia N. "Already doing it: intellectual disability and sexual agency." Sex Education 16, no. 6 (March 31, 2016): 721–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2016.1165441.

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Bryant, Joanne, and Toni Schofield. "Feminine Sexual Subjectivities: Bodies, Agency and Life History." Sexualities 10, no. 3 (July 2007): 321–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460707078321.

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Fish, Rebecca. "Already doing it: intellectual disability and sexual agency." Disability & Society 32, no. 3 (February 13, 2017): 430–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1283838.

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Tan, Nancy Nam Hoon. "Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency." Journal of Disability & Religion 22, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 118–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2018.1447830.

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Macy, Rebecca J., Natalie Johns, Cynthia F. Rizo, Sandra L. Martin, and Mary Giattina. "Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Service Goal Priorities." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 26, no. 16 (January 30, 2011): 3361–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260510393003.

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We investigated agency directors’ perspectives about how service goals should be prioritized for domestic violence and sexual assault service subtypes, including crisis, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, counseling, support group, and shelter services. A sample of 97 (94% response rate) North Carolina domestic violence and/or sexual assault agency directors completed a survey asking participants to rank the importance of service goals. Overall, participants considered emotional support provision to be a critical service goal priority across all service types. Social support and self-care service strategies were deemed less important. However, prioritization of other service goals varied depending on the service type. Statistically significant differences on service goal prioritization based on key agency characteristics were also examined, and agency characteristics were found to relate to differences in service goal prioritization.

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Cummins, Deborah. "Consent, Estraga Feto & Decision-Making Agency in Timor-Leste." Diálogos 3 (November 17, 2018): 208–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.53930/27892182.dialogos.3.90.

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Sexual violence is a serious problem in Timor-Leste. Drawing on the stories of women survivors of sexual violence and other interviews conducted across TimorLeste since 2008, this paper explores common local understandings of sexual violence as key to enhancing preventative and legal strategies aimed to address this problem. While there are still many questions to be answered, fieldwork indicates that the concept of consent in sexual decision-making is poorly understood, with most community members understanding sexual violence in relation to the locally-used term estraga feto. However, this is misleading as the concept of estraga feto comes from a different paradigm, driven by ideas of family honour which are dependent on unwed women and girls retaining their virginity – and accompanying ideas of ‘lost value’ for women and girls who lose their virginity outside marriage. To challenge the further abuses and victim-blaming that can arise because of this paradigm, such as women and girls being married off to their rapists, subject to further sexual abuse or violence, and/or left with limited future prospects, it would be more useful long-term to educate community members on the concept of consent as a veto in sexual decision-making, and in doing so to refocus the conversation to people’s individual rights under the law.

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Bhatasara, Sandra, Tafadzwa Chevo, and Talent Changadeya. "An Exploratory Study of Male Adolescent Sexuality in Zimbabwe: The Case of Adolescents in Kuwadzana Extension, Harare." Journal of Anthropology 2013 (November 7, 2013): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/298670.

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Although young people in Zimbabwe are becoming sexually active at a very early age, there is no unified body of knowledge on how they regard sex and construct sexuality and relationships. In many circumstances adolescence sexual agency is denied and silenced. This study explored adolescents’ discourses on sexuality, factors affecting adolescent sexuality, and sexual health. Fusing a social constructionist standpoint and an active view of agency, we argue that the way male adolescents perceive and experience sexuality and construct sexual identities is mediated by the sociocultural context in which they live in and their own agency. Although adolescents are mistakenly regarded as sexual innocents by society, we argue that male adolescents are active social agents in constructing their own sexual realities and identities. At the same time, dominant structural and interactional factors have a bearing on how male adolescents experience and generate sexuality.

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Iskandar, Livia Istania. "LPSK-Establishing State Presence in Protection of Witnesses and Victims, inclusive of Sexual Violence Crimes." Jurnal Perempuan 26, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.34309/jp.v26i2.581.

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<p class="p1">The Indonesian Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK in Indonesian) was established based on Law No.13/2006 Protection of Witness and Victims, which was later amended by Law No 31/2014. It is an independent non-structural agency headed by seven commissioners for 5-year terms. One of the Agency’s priority crimes is sexual violence. The Agency protects witnesses, victims, whistleblowers, justice collaborators, and experts. For the years 2019-May 2021, the Agency has given protection to a total of 984 victims of sexual crimes, consisting of 67 percent children and 33 percent adults. Out of that, 78 percent are female victims compared to 22 percent male victims. Based on Law No. 31/2014, there are 16 types of witness and victims’ rights. The three most sought-after protection programs for victims of sexual violence are Procedural Rights, Psychological Rehabilitation, and Restitution Facilitation. For prevention programs, we need to learn who are sexual violence perpetrators.</p>

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Mark, Kristen P., and Laura M. Vowels. "Sexual consent and sexual agency of women in healthy relationships following a history of sexual trauma." Psychology & Sexuality 11, no. 4 (May 22, 2020): 315–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2020.1769157.

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Nelson, Angela Marie. "Shirley Caesar and the Politics of Validating Sexual Agency." Religions 13, no. 6 (June 20, 2022): 568. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13060568.

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Black gospelwoman and pastor Shirley Ann Caesar Williams, better known as “Shirley Caesar” to her listeners over the last several decades, entered a professionalization phase of her ministry and career from 1958 to 1966 when she joined and performed with The Caravans. Being a Caravan member brought with it the possibility of being in compromising situations while on the road, which would expose Caesar—a Black woman—to the possibility of sexual (and racial) violence. Caesar’s first night as a Caravan in 1958 provided such a circumstance, a failed sexual advance that she describes in Chapter 5, “On the Road with the Caravans”, of her 1998 autobiography, The Lady, the Melody, and the Word. Caesar’s identities (Black, woman, Christian, chaste) intersecting with a potential sexual advance and her reaction to it is fodder for the reinforcement of Black male authority, power, privilege, and dominance in the Black Sanctified Church as well as the assertion of sexual agency. Today Caesar continues to shape her complex public identity born out of a set of negotiations embracing and challenging specific gendered, racial, sexual, and religious norms, the conditions of Black and white mobility, and patterns of religious authority. However, for her, religious authority remains paramount.

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Miriam, Kathy. "Toward a Phenomenology of Sex-Right: Reviving Radical Feminist Theory of Compulsory Heterosexuality." Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 210–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01157.x.

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In this essay, Miriam argues for a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to the radical feminist theory of sex-right and compulsory heterosexuality. Against critics of radical feminism, she argues that when understood from a phenomenological’ hermeneutic perspective, such theory does not foreclose female sexual agency. On the contrary, men's right of sexual access to women and girls is part of our background understanding of heteronormativity, and thus integral to the lived experience of female sexual agency.

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Wijaya Mulya, Teguh. "Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics." Sexuality & Culture 22, no. 3 (February 21, 2018): 740–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9506-6.

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Harbin, Ami. "Sexual Authenticity." Dialogue 50, no. 1 (March 2011): 77–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217311000126.

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ABSTRACT: In this paper, I am interested in the ethics of everyday sexual agency: specifically, in moral questions about when, how, and why we identify ourselves as particular kinds of sexual agents. Given that sexual self-identifications involve a complex combination of individual and social processes, a framework which does justice to these processes would help make room for an analysis of the ethics of sexual self-identification. I introduce the concept of sexual authenticity as useful in these contexts, where such authenticity involves two main aspects: taking up sexual identifications as our ownmost and giving accounts of them to and with others.

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Fitri, Ainal, Muhammad Haekal, Almukarramah Almukarramah, and Fitri Meliya Sari. "Sexual violence in Indonesian University: On students’ critical consciousness and agency." Gender Equality: International Journal of Child and Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/equality.v7i2.9869.

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This qualitative study analysed how aspects of critical consciousness in students played a role in the issue of sexual violence in a higher education institution. This research involved students, lecturers, and elements of higher education leaders of a university in Aceh, Indonesia. For the data collection method, the researchers used semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed using thematic analysis with the utilization of critical consciousness and student agency concept as the theoretical frameworks. This study found that aspects of critical consciousness played a significant role in dealing with sexual violence issues in university. Without critical consciousness, students would potentially err in analysing the issue of sexual violence. Aspects of students' critical consciousness were also influenced by the structure or discourse of higher education in viewing sexual violence. The tendency of campus to be more concerned with its good reputation also exacerbated the handling and prevention of sexual violence cases. The implication of this research is the finding that critical consciousness and institutional structure influence each other, both positively and negatively. To deal with sexual violence, a university must promote critical consciousness among students and academics, create pro survivors’ discourse and underpin students' agency, and most importantly, strive to cultivate gender equity perspective among university leaders. Future research should focus on investigating effective pedagogy to nurture critical consciousness for supporting the anti-sexual violence agenda in a higher education institution

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Morton, Cynthia, Sabrina Habib, and Jon Morris. "What women want: the effect of health agency advertising on patient-doctor communication." International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing 15, no. 3 (July 9, 2021): 451–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijphm-07-2020-0061.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between women’s sexual health agency and their intent to initiate communications with their doctors. The research questions examined the effect sexual health agency has on patient-doctor communication, women’s emotional responses to health advertisements encouraging patient communication with their doctors, attitude toward the message and behavioral intentions after exposure to the advertising message. Design/methodology/approach An experimental design was implemented via an online questionnaire instrument to test the differences between younger-aged women (25 to 45 years) and mature-aged women (46 to 70 years). It was observed that 188 women who reported their status as single and sexually active in the past 12 months were exposed to a health advertisement that encouraged patient-doctor communication. Analyses were conducted to compare between-group measures on sexual health agency, emotional response and attitude toward the ad and behavioral intention. Findings No statistical difference existed between younger and older women. In general, women expect their doctor to lead conversations about sexual health but are positively reinforced by health messages that encourage their assertiveness as patients. Research limitations/implications The small sample size also may have limited the study’s potential to evaluate differences between age segments. Future research should explore this further. Practical implications The study provides evidence that sexual health advertising can reinforce women’s intent to initiate conversations with doctors regardless of age. Social implications Health communications can bolster women’s sexual health agency and improve patient-initiated conversations with doctors. Originality/value The study is the first to explore advertising messaging’s potential for applying health agency as a communication strategy for encouraging sexual health communications between women and their doctors.

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Fiaveh, Daniel Y., and Michael PK Okyerefo. "Femininity, Sexual Positions and Choice." Sexualities 22, no. 1-2 (February 8, 2017): 131–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716677281.

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While women present themselves and their sexuality through dress and their deportment, there are areas of their sexual lives that are not so public and are less easy to research, such as intimate sexual relations. In this study, the authors report findings from interviews with men and women about a topic not often reported on – choice of sexual positions. The focus on sexual positions raises questions about sexual agency – who chooses, what do they choose, and why? It also raises issues of gender power and inequality between consenting (heterosexual) adults. In this study from urban Ghana, the authors show that women exercise sexual agency in the ‘bedroom’ but do so in ways that reflect emotional and relational security and, in turn, reflect men’s power. However, the article’s argument is not just about the power of men to seek and obtain pleasure. Women seek and obtain pleasure too.

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PILIPENKO, S., and V. PILIPENKO. "PROBLEMS OF STATE HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE MODERN EDUCATION AGENCY." ТHE SOURCES OF PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS, no. 22 (November 7, 2018): 170–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33989/2075-146x.2018.22.185279.

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The article analyzes the causes and forms of deviations in the sexual behavior of adolescents in modern Ukraine. The means of preventing these abnormalities based on personal, axiological, and environmental approaches are considered. Attention is drawn to the issues of tolerance in the field of sexual life and the risks associated with early deviations in sexual relations are stipulated.It is emphasized that knowledge of deviant forms of moral and sexual behavior is important in the organization and successful implementation of correctional influences, social and psychotherapeutic rehabilitation, as well as preventive measures. In this case, the educational role of the teacher should not be limited to simple information, warning or, moreover, intimidation of adolescents by negative consequences of violation of normative sexual behavior. His task is to help the child develop constructive principles of their own organization of life, to ensure that complex situations do not lead to deep psycho-emotional crises, in advance to make awareness of the ability to reasonably manage their lives.

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King, Brian W. "Hip Hop headz in sex ed: Gender, agency, and styling in New Zealand." Language in Society 47, no. 4 (July 16, 2018): 487–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404518000623.

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AbstractThis study examines Hip Hop styling, gender, and sexual agency in a sex education class. The focus is on the indirect indexing of gender by a female-bodied student through the Hip Hop cultural personas of braggadocio and swagger, providing a rare look at ‘mundane’ performances of Hip Hop and its relationship to gender. Discourse analysis demonstrates that she used Hip Hop styling to manage ascriptions of sexual agency during a discussion task as she repeatedly recontextualized the telling of a classroom incident. Her language use afforded the trying out of identity meanings and required complex discursive work in relation to constructs such as masculinity, femininity, straight, and lesbian. These processes assisted her to negotiate how sexual agency might fit with her various identifications and identities. Therefore the potential for Hip Hop styling to connect identities with language has implications for both sexuality education and the study of sociolinguistics. (Agency, gender, Hip Hop, performativity, sexuality, social identities, styling)*

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Harris, Kate Lockwood, Megan McFarlane, and Valerie Wieskamp. "The promise and peril of agency as motion: A feminist new materialist approach to sexual violence and sexual harassment." Organization 27, no. 5 (April 22, 2019): 660–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419838697.

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Organizational scholars have established that sexual harassment, the most studied kind of sexual violence, is an organizational problem. Extending this work, we analyze two critical events regarding sexual violence in the United States—one in the military and another at a university—in which discourse detracts from understanding the problem in this way. We draw upon feminist new materialism and its primary method—diffraction—to track ‘cuts’, the practices that simplify and pause agency’s complex, perpetual motions. Our analysis shows that agency moves in discussions about the aftermath of violence. That momentum highlights the organization’s capacity to respond to rape. Even so, during discussions about enacting violence, the perpetual motion of agency congeals around discrete humans, thereby maintaining assault as an individual act. These cuts, whereby agency pauses on individual perpetrators, obscure how organizational dynamics make sexual violence more or less likely to occur. We suggest that a focus on agency’s kinetic qualities can help feminist scholars continue to highlight how the systemic aspects of harassment and other forms of violence become hard to notice.

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Gill, Rosalind. "Empowerment/Sexism: Figuring Female Sexual Agency in Contemporary Advertising." Feminism & Psychology 18, no. 1 (February 2008): 35–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353507084950.

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Arreola, Sonya G., George Ayala, Rafael M. Díaz, and Alex H. Kral. "Structure, Agency, and Sexual Development of Latino Gay Men." Journal of Sex Research 50, no. 3-4 (April 2013): 392–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2011.648028.

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